Shirt



H. KLEINBERG Feb. 7, 1933.

SHIRT Filed Jan. 29, 1932 Patented Feb. .7, 1933 UNITED *STATESA HARRY KLEINBERG, or PITTSBURGH, rnNNsYLvANIA f 2 SHIRT Application led January 29, 1932. Serial 170.589,72. Y

This invention relates to outer shirts. Very often shirts come back from the laundry with the walls of the pockets in the neckband into which the collar button is 1nserted so starched together that it is practi cally impossible to pry the walls ap art except by a sharp instrument. lIt is therefore the main obj ect of the invention to provide means to easily separate the walls of the pockets in lar button when the said walls are starched together.

Another object of the invention is to provide a shirt having a tab attached to one of the walls of the pockets in the neckband for housing the collar button, said tab adapted to pull the `walls apart for inserting the collar button. V

Other objects will appear as the disclosure progresses. The drawing is intended to merely indicate a possible embodiment of the invention.y It is obvious that the actual needs of manufacture may necessitate certainme chanical changes. It is therefore not'intended to limit the invention to the embodiment illustrated but rather to dene such limits in the appended claims. For a more general understanding of the invention attention is called to the drawing. In this drawing like 3 reference characters denote like parts throughout the specification. Y

In the drawing: Figure 1 is a front view of a dress shirt partly open and showing the tabs attached tovthe neckband. Y Figure 2 is an enlargedv section on line 2-2 of Figure 1. y

Figure 3 is a view looking at the neckband in the direction of arrow A of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a view of a dress shirt having a stiff bosom showing the tabs in place. YFigure 5 is a section on line 5-5 of Figure 4.

Figure 6 is a section on line 6-6 of Figure 4 and Figure 7 is a shirt with the collar attached showing the tab in place. s

Referring now to the drawing in detail numeral 1 designates the shirt, 2 the neckband and 3 the button-holes therein. Formed in Y responds to theinsideof the neckband.V lThe s f wallb as indicated in Figure?. is of double the neckband is a pocket 4 for housing the base of the collarjbutton 5. The front wall 6 of s the pocket corresponds to the front of the neckband and the backwall 7 ofthe back corthickness andinserted between the Vsaid walls is a tab 8 of double thickness. ,"Ihe tab eX- vtends up to the buttonghole 3 `and the top 10 the neckband which house the base of the col-V edge ofthe said tab is sewed'to the'buttonhole by the usual overcast stitches 9." The central ypart ofthe tab' is sewedto the edge of the wall `6 by the stitcheslO. "Ihe tabis made of softmaterial so it Vcan easily be used for opening the pocket 4Qshould thewalls 6 and 7' be starchedtogether.- y i In Figure'4 is shown a stiffV bosom dress shirt with the tabs attached tothe front and back pockets ofthe neckband, Numeral 11 designates the shirt, 12 the vneckband and 13 '(0 the pockets for holdingthe cllarV buttons 114.

Attached to oneof the walls ofA the pockets i are' the'tabs 15.k These tabs are the same and function similar to the tabs 8.

Figure 7 shows the tab used in connection with a shirt with an attached collar. Numeral 16 designates the shirt, 17 the neckband and 18the tab. This tab is attached in the same manner as the tab 8 shown in Figure 1.

It will thus be seen that I have providedv an eflicient, economical and simple means for separating the walls of the pockets when starched together for inserting the collar L button.` Having described my invention', I claim: Y Y f 35 1. In a shirt of the class' described in combination, a neckband having two walls form-V ing pockets between them for the insertion v of a collar button, one of said wallsprovided with a button-hole, said last mentioned wall; formed of two thicknesses ofmaterial, aV tab y held between said two thicknesses of mate- Y rial, the top edge of said tab sewed in the overcast stitches of said buttonhole.

2. In a shirt of the class described in com; w95 bination, a neckband having two walls forming pockets between them for the insertion of a collar button, one of said walls provided with a button-hole, overcast stitches around the inside edge of said button-hole, said last 100 mentioned wall formed of two thicknesses of material, a tab held between said two thicknesses of material, said tab ymade of two thicknesses of material, the top ends of both thicknesses of said tab sewed in the overcast stitches of said button-hole.

3. In a shirt of the class described in combination, a neckband havingtwo walls forming pockets between them for the insertion of a collar button, one of said walls provided with a button-hole, overcast stitches around the inside edge of said button-hole, said last mentioned wall formed of two thicknesses of material and having inturned edges, a tab-held between said two thicknesses of material and inturned edges, said tab made of two thicknesses of material, the top ends of i both of said thicknessesof material of said tab sewed in the said overcast stitches of lsaid button-hole, and another row of stitches for sewing the central part of the tab between said last mentioned wall formed of two thicknesses'of material.'

4. In a shirt of the class described in combination, a neckband, having two walls forming pockets between themy for the insertion of a collar button, one of said walls provided with a button-hole, overcoat stitches around the inside edges of said button-hole, a tab made of two thicknesses of material, the top ends of both thicknesses of material of said tab sewed in the overcast stitches of said button-hole, and another row of stitches for sewing the central part of said tab to one of the said walls of the neckband.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature.V

- y HARRY KLEINBERG. 

